By JNI Media April 28, 2016 - A special report by Palestinian
Media Watch (PMW) reveals a major fraud by the Palestinian Authority,
through which it is reaping more than a billion dollars in foreign
aid annually. In 2014, the PA announced that in order to continue
receiving more than a billion dollars in financial support annually,
it was acceding to US and European donor countries demands
that the PA stop paying salaries to terrorist prisoners. The
PA claimed the money for prisoners salaries would no longer
be paid by the PA but instead by the PLO.

Even though PMW warned at the time that this was nothing
more than a ploy, the US and the EU countries accepted the PAs
assurances, and continue to pay the PA more than a billion dollars
in financial aid every year. The PMW special report cites numerous
official PA sources and statements by officials, showing that
the PA is violating the trust of the US and the EU. According
to all these sources, the PA Ministry of Finance continues to
make the decisions and remains the source of the money for paying
salaries to terrorist prisoners. http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/66678/palestinian-lies-watchdog-

divulges-pas-billion-dollar-fraud

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UN REJECTS ISRAELS CLAIM TO GOLAN HEIGHTS AS TOP RABBIS AWAIT
THE MESSIAH

The UN Security Council has unanimously rejected Israel's
claim to sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and this is likely
to cause tensions in the Middle East to rise even higher. On
Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boldly declared
"that the Golan Heights will remain under Israel's sovereignty
permanently." After close to 50 years of control over the
Golan Heights, this should not have been much of a shock. But
the Arab world immediately went into an uproar, and the UN Security
Council has taken action. In a unanimous decision, the UN Security
Council has announced that Israel's claims to the Golan Heights
are "null and void and without international legal effect."

So once again the United Nations and the nation of Israel
are directly at odds with one another, because the truth is that
Israel is never going to leave the Golan Heights as long as Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in power. The following
comes from CNN... Israel's Prime Minister has declared that the
Golan Heights will remain permanently under the country's control,
during Israel's first Cabinet meeting held in the territory.
"The time has come for the international community to recognize
reality, especially two basic facts," said Benjamin Netanyahu
during a Cabinet meeting Sunday.
"One, whatever is beyond the border, the boundary itself
will not change. Two, after 50 years, the time has come for the
international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights
will remain under Israel's sovereignty permanently."

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=303#JwCc3Ykat4QecRv8.99

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SAUDI GENERAL 'IF NETANYAHU ACCEPTS THE ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE,
WE'LL OPEN AN EMBASSY IN ISRAEL'

Anwar Eshki, a retired Major General in the Saudi army said
in an interview with AL-Jazeera that he opposes arming the Palestinians,
"like Iran does," because it will be counterproductive.
Comments by a well-connected former major-general in the Saudi
military who said Tuesday that Riyadh would establish an embassy
in Israel if it accepted the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative failed
to elicit an official response from Jerusalem.

Anwar Eshki, who met publicly in June with Dore Gold just
before the latter was appointed director-general of the Foreign
Ministry, was asked during an Al Jazeera interview how long it
would be before Saudi Arabia would open an embassy in Israel
You can ask Mr. Netanyahu, Eshki replied. If
he announces that he accepts the initiative and gives all rights
to Palestinians, Saudi Arabia will start to make an embassy in
Tel Aviv.

The Prime Ministers Office had no response.
The 2002 Arab Peace Initiative called for a two-state solution
based on an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 armistice lines
and making east Jerusalem the Palestinian capital in return for
normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace
with Israel.

The initiative also called for the achievement of a
just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed
upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.

In the Arab world, that resolution is viewed as enshrining
a Palestinian refugee right of return to places in
Israel they or their ancestors fled from or were driven from
during the 1947-1949 War of Independence. Netanyahu articulated
his position on this plan in a 2014 interview with The Jerusalem
Post, saying that the initiative was drawn up at a significantly
different time in the Middle East, and is no longer relevant.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Saudi-general-If-Netanyahu-

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TROUBLE BREWING IN EGYPT
Paul Pillar - April 26, 2016 - With U.S. attention toward the
Middle East being recently focused on such matters as warfare
in Syria and Iraq and on the relationship with Saudi Arabia,
little attention span is left over for the relationship with
the most populous Arab nation. But developments in Egypt have,
in multiple respects, significant capacity for creating attention-grabbing
problems for Washington in addition to problems to which Egypt
already is contributing in significant though less salient ways.
The regime of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has become increasingly harsh,
illiberal and downright brutalmuch more so than the last
previous Egyptian general-turned-president, Hosni Mubarak. The
State Department's official human rights report on Egypt says
that the most significant human rights problems there have been
excessive use of force by security forces, deficiencies
in due process, and the suppression of civil liberties. Excessive
use of force included unlawful killings and torture. Due process
problems included the excessive use of preventative custody and
pretrial detention, the use of military courts to try civilians,
and trials involving hundreds of defendants in which authorities
did not present evidence on an individual basis. Civil liberties
problems included societal and government restrictions on freedoms
of expression and the press, as well as on the freedoms of assembly
and association. Nongovernmental human rights organizations
have used even stronger language to describe the situation in
Egypt.http://www.nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/trouble-brewing-egypt-15952

By Shmuley Boteach - June 6, 2016 - Barack Obama Anti-Israel
Policy - Word is going around diplomatic circles that the Obama
administration is planning a November surprise for Israel.

Heres what is said to be going on:

The Paris peace conference last Friday, to which Israel and
the Palestinians were not even invited, will end up exerting
enormous pressure on Israel to create a Palestinian state. This
renewed pressure will come despite evidence that a Palestinian
state in the West Bank will quickly be dominated by genocidal
Hamas, which is a threat to Israel and a disaster for the Palestinians.

This will lead, in all likelihood, to a United Nations Security
Council Resolution either condemning Israel for not creating
that state or for not withdrawing from Judea and Samaria in the
West Bank, despite the fact that it would irreversibly compromise
Israels security.

Now, here is where it gets interesting. Israeli officials
and Jewish communal leaders have told me that they expect the
Obama administration will not veto the resolution at the UNSC
 that Samantha Power, the US Ambassador to the UN, will
not exercise the American veto. This would mean that the resolution/condemnation
goes through. President Obama will not worry about how this will
affect Hillary Clinton, because the UN resolution will be brought
after the November election.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has hatched
a plan. He is going to New York City April 21-23 to be present
for a high level signing ceremony on a climate change agreement.
While he is there, he has another highly charged document that
he plans to pull out of his pocket and bring forward to the UN
Security Council for their consideration and for a vote. What
is that document? http://un-report.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/palestinian-draft-resolution-calls.html

It is a UN Security Council draft resolution on Israeli settlements.
The text of this draft, dated 3/30/16, is now published online
and the text of the resolution has been made public. The draft
resolution declares the following: "Palestinian Draft Resolution
Calls Israel to Immediately Cease Settlement Acts"

Paragraph#2 Reiterates its demand that Israel, the
occupying power immediately and completely cease all settlement
activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East
Jerusalem and that it fully respect all its legal obligations
in this regard.

Paragraph #5 The UN draft also states this: calls on
all parties in the interest of peace and security, to exert collective
efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues
in the Middle East peace process according to its agreed terms
of reference and within the time frame specified by the Quartet
[of Mideast peacemakers] in its statement of 21 September 2010.

What does the statement of Sept 21, 2010 say? That all final
status terms for Palestinian land and boundaries would be settled
within ONE year. So, if this Israel Settlements Resolution gets
voted on and passed through the UN Security Council during Passover
of 2016, that would set a timeline out to Passover, April 2017
for final status of land and defined boundaries for
a Palestinian state.

I dont think Abbas was alone in hatching his plan.
I want to run a scenario or a hypothesis by you. It is quite
possible that a backroom deal may have been cut between Obama
and the Palestinians. There may be a premeditated plan in place,
happening as a process, in stages and steps, and it is in progress
now. Here is a possible scenario that could be unfolding even
now.

Obama wants the Palestinians to come back to the negotiating
table to discuss a two state solution. The Palestinians have
refused to come back to the negotiating table. Obama wants the
Palestinians to come and participate in the Peace conference
this summer. How does he get them to come?

To entice them back to the table, here is what Obama might
be doing .kind of like throwing a piece of fresh raw meat
out on the table so that the alligator will come to the negotiating
table. The draft UN resolution on Israeli settlements is the
raw meat to get the alligator (the Palestinians)
to come to the negotiating table (i.e. get the Palestinians to
come to the Peace conference this summer).
Here is what the deal might be in a nutshell: Pass this Israeli
settlements resolution through the UN Security Council, the Palestinians
will be happy and then they will agree to come to the Peace conference
this summer to talk about a two state solution.
Step 1: The Bait. To entice the Palestinians to come back to
the table and participate in the Summer Peace Conference that
France is hosting, Obama is enticing them to participate by getting
the UN resolution on Israeli settlements passed through the UN
Security Council. This is the Palestinians pre-conditions
put into writing and then legislated through the
UN.
Step 2: The Vote. Abbas brings this draft settlement resolution
to the UN Security council in New York on

April 21-23 (Passover weekend). They vote on it, the US does
NOT veto it, and the resolution passes.
Step 3: The Table of Negotiations. A summer peace conference
hosted by France is scheduled/planned. The Palestinians participate
in the summer peace conference, Israel may or may not participate/attend.
No agreement comes forth. This becomes like set up or a trap
set against Israel. This is Obamas cover for
what he will do next.
Step 4: Obamas Cover to Blame Israel. Obama will then be
able to say, Israel is the problem, Israel wont come
to the table, or if they do come, they wont agree to these
terms/conditions. We have tried everything, we have tried direct
negotiations, they have failed. Its all Israels fault.
We need a solution now, so now are going to bring it to the UN
Security Council and just legislate a Palestinian
state solution through that body.
Step 5: Palestinian State declared Through UN Security Council:
The UN Security Council does a vote, possibly between November
2016 and January 2017, during Obamas final months as President.
The Resolution declares a full member Palestinian state. The
UN-given power to implement the deal, by force, if
necessary. Will we see UN troops coming down from the north and
forcibly evicting 600,000 Jews out of biblical Judea and Samaria
(the West Bank or Green zone)? Time will tell.

How does this UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements relate
Passover of 2016? Lets connect the dots. Passover is a
threshold covenant. The Hebrews were instructed to
blot out the names of the Egyptian gods that may
have been inscribed on their door posts. Those names were blotted
out and the power of those gods cancelled out with the smearing
of lambs blood on the doorframe. The Hebrews went into
their homes that night as slaves, but in the morning when they
woke up and stepped through the blood smeared doorways, a free
nation was born.

The God of Israel
has His people coming to the table on Passover to be in covenant
with Him, remembering back to when the first Passover happened
(Exodus 12). Meanwhile, Satan has his counterfeit anti-covenant
plan and strategy unfolding. The New World Order power brokers
are carrying out this dark plan, with an anti-covenant
measure being brought forward: the UN Draft Israeli Settlement
Resolution. http://un-report.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/palestinian-draft-resolution-calls.html

The anti-covenant deal is this: Abbas is bringing
the Israel Settlements Resolution to the UN Security

Council in New York.abbas_netayahu_meet.jpg

http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-un-draft-calls-to-resolve-

final-status-issues-within-a-year/

When is he going to bring it to the UN Security Council?
Not just on any random day, but on Passover weekend, April 22nd:
Here I quote from The Times of Israel article:

Israeli daily Haaretz, which first reported on the resolution,
said the Palestinians want the Security Council

to vote when PA President Mahmoud Abbas is in New York on
April 22 for a high-level signing ceremony for the

landmark climate agreement reached in Paris in December.

Time will tell whether the scenario listed above plays out.
If the US vetoes the Israeli settlements resolution, or if the
UN resolution gets shelved, then the scenario was incorrect,
GAME OVER.

Will the US veto the resolution? In the news we have this
report that just came out: Report: US to abstain in

PA-sponsored anti-Israel UN resolution.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210668#.V1oOZYr2YdV
The Obama administration is telling us in advance how they intend
to vote on the UN Israeli Settlements resolution they plan
to abstain. What does that mean? There are 15 votes in the UN,
but only 5 with veto power. The US has veto power but they are
saying they will not veto the resolution, they will abstain.
What will very likely happen? The Resolution, if brought to the
UN Security Council on Passover weekend, will very likely PASS.

This resolution declares the following: Reaffirming
that all Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian
territory, including East Jerusalem are illegal and constitute
a major obstacle to the achievement of peace on the basis of
the two

Comment:
Quartet = A group of four
Daniel 7 = A group of four
Paragraph #5 The UN draft also states this: calls on all
parties in the interest of peace and security, to exert collective
efforts to launch credible negotiations on all final status issues
in the Middle East peace process according to its agreed terms
of reference and within the time frame specified by the Quartet
[of Mideast peacemakers] in its statement of 21 September 2010.
UN REPORT (Documents) http://un-report.blogspot.co.il/2016/04/palestinian-draft-resolution-calls.html
http://prophecy.cephasministry.org/prophecy_phase_1-4_daniel_7.6.html

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ISRAELI REJECTIONISM AS POLICY

What Israel seeks is not peace but pacification.
French President Francois Hollande greets Mahmoud Abbas as he
arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France [EPA]

By Sharif Nashashibi - May 6, 2016 - Have Palestinian leaders
failed? An Interview reveals what the hangup really is and by
the end of the questioning it was revealed that the Palestinians
will get to vote on the two state resolution.

I don't want my grandchildren to be suicide bombers. See
the video interview on the link below.

Israel's rejection of a new peace initiative by France was
unsurprising, and its excuse flimsy.

"Israel adheres to its position that the best way to
resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians

is direct, bilateral negotiations," said Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. However, the French initiative

does not preclude direct, bilateral negotiations.

ABBAS ARRIVES IN FRANCE
Opinion Politics 6 May 2016 Israeli rejectionism as policy. What
Israel seeks is not peace but pacification.
French President Francois Hollande greets Mahmoud Abbas as he
arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in

Paris, France [EPA]
By Sharif Nashashibi - Israel's rejection of a new peace initiative
by France was unsurprising, and its excuse flimsy.

"Israel adheres to its position that the best way to
resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is direct,
bilateral negotiations," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
However, the French initiative does not preclude direct, bilateral
negotiations. What it does do is propose an initial peace conference
on May 30, which is reportedly expected to include some 30 countries
and international organisations. That is the problem: Israel
does not like outside mediation from

any party except the US, because it knows that Washington
- its closest and strongest ally - will never be a

By Marissa Newman - June 1, 2016 - Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu made clear Wednesday that he was opposed to a return
to the pre-1967 division of Jerusalem in a future peace deal,
and slammed a UNESCO resolution eliding Jewish ties to the Temple
Mount. "Our roots are deeper than any other nation's, including
to the Temple Mount. Jerusalem was ours and will remain ours,"
he said, speaking in a special Knesset session marking Jerusalem
Day. Israel doesn't need to "make excuses for [its] presence
in Jerusalem," he added, but he did not definitively rule
out any territorial concessions in the city. "We remember
Jerusalem up until the [1967] Six Day War," he said, when
the city was split, with Israelis excluded from the Old City
and its eastern neighborhoods. "We certainly do not want
to return to that situation."

"I believe the Six Day War clarified to our enemies
that we are here to stay," he added.

The prime minister also lashed out at an "absurd and
outrageous" UNESCO resolution from April that omitted the
Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, the Western Wall and Jerusalem
generally. The resolution accused Israel of "planting fake
Jewish graves in Muslim cemeteries" and of "the continued
conversion of many Islamic and Byzantine remains into the so-called
Jewish ritual baths or into Jewish prayer places."

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog took to the podium after the
prime minister, lambasted the latter's partial endorsement of
the Arab Peace Initiative on Monday and announced that "words
mean nothing without action."

The Temple Mount and Western Wall in Jerusalem, as seen from
the Israeli Air Force's annual flyby on Independence Day, May
12, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel) In his address, Herzog
said Israel must strive for an agreement to keep Jerusalem 'Jewish
and moral, whole and secure"

"Your talk about regional opportunities is very impressive,
but you must take care that they are not seen as flip-flopping
or empty statements," he said to Netanyahu, referring to
the prime minister's joint press conference on Monday with new
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in which the two pledged support
for parts of the 2002 Arab proposal.

"Jerusalem will not remain Jewish and moral, whole and
secure if there is no dramatic change and unless we reach a peace
deal," said Herzog.

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein looks on as Meretz leader
Zehava Galon addresses the Knesset during a special session to
mark Jerusalem Day, on June 1, 2016.

Galon said Ariel had broken a Knesset ban on lawmakers visiting
the Temple Mount on Wednesday morning. Edelstein said that the
information was false, and because the issue was so 'volatile'
it was important to emphasize that no Knesset members had visited
the holy site since they were barred from the area late last
year amid rising tensions in the capital.

Jerusalem Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) urged the government
to improve infrastructure in the city's eastern Arab neighborhoods,
but emphasized that Jerusalem would remain united under any future
peace agreement.

"Unfortunately, one hears talk that in order to save
Jerusalem, one must divide it. The Israeli public doesn't want
the city divided, and that's why we will remain in power,"
said Elkin. "If we place a clear red line against dividing
Jerusalem, as has been for years, we will be able to reach a
[peace] deal, it doesn't matter with which initiative "French,
Saudi, or any other initiative."

Israel on Sunday will mark Jerusalem Day, a national holiday
that celebrates the 1967 Israeli capture of the Western Wall
and Temple Mount holy sites, along with the city's eastern half.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

Abdullah charges Hani Mulki, who once headed committee for
negotiations with Israel, with leading kingdom into next elections.

By Dov Lieber - May 29, 2016 - Jordan's King Abdullah II
issued a decree on Sunday dissolving the parliament, and appointed
a new prime minister to ready the country for new elections.
The announcement came at the end of the parliament's four-year
term. The decision ended the term of prime minister Abdullah
Ensour, who resigned Sunday, as is traditional before a new premier
can be chosen to oversee elections. The man tapped by King Abdullah
as the new prime minister is Hani Mulki, a long-time civil servant
who served as the chief commissioner of the Aqaba Special Economic
Zone Authority.

Mukli served as chairmen of the Jordanian Committee for Peace
Negotiations with Israel between 1994-1996 and was the ambassador
to Egypt from 2002-2004 and again from 2008-2011, according to
official website of the Jordanian Senate.

The final act of the former parliament
before it was dissolved was a controversial vote to allow Israel
to invest in Jordan, which came as part of a larger bill to allow
foreign countries to invest in the Hashemite Kingdom. The lawmakers
first voted to not allow Israel to invest in their country, but
a re-vote saw the body reverse its decision, according to the
Jordanian news site Al Bawaba.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Jordan in January 2014
(photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO/FLASH90) While Jordan and Israel
enjoy close but quiet cooperation on security matters and maintain
large-scale economic deals, Amman has repeatedly criticized Israel
for its policies toward the Palestinians, particularly on the
Temple Mount, leading to some strain in diplomatic ties. Jordanian
democracy is considered weak, as the king still wields broad
executive powers and appoints and dismisses the prime minister
and cabinet at his discretion. Additionally, the entire senate,
which debates every law after it goes through the elected House
of Representatives, is appointed by the king. A 2015 Freedom
House report gave Jordan a 2/12 score for electoral process and
3/12 for functioning of government. http://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/king-abduallah/

By Times of Israel staff - June 3, 2016 - In a telephone
conversation with Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday,
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "said yes" to new
efforts led by Egypt and Saudi Arabia for regional progress toward
peace, an Israeli television report said. The call was made on
the eve of Friday's Paris peace summit, and was a factor in the
summit's vague concluding communique, which Kerry helped negotiate,
and which did not set a firm date for the international peace
conference Paris wants to host by the year's end, the Channel
2 report said.

Netanyahu also spoke by telephone with France's Foreign Minister
Jean-Marc Ayrault hours after the summit ended, and told him
that France and its allies would best advance peace prospects
if, rather than pushing their own initiative, they pressed Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas into resuming direct talks
with Israel, a source close to the prime minister said. Netanyahu
also told Ayrault that France's bid to host an international
conference could wind up complicating regional efforts that might
actually have a chance of making progress, the source said.

Ayrault reportedly initiated the call in order to update
Netanyahu on the session. The prime minister also told the French
foreign minister that he opposed Paris's idea of setting up working
groups to discuss core issues such as security arrangements for
a peace accord. "Israel will deal with its own essential
security needs," Netanyahu said, according to a senior Israeli
source.

Dore Gold, the director general of the Foreign Ministry,
told The Times of Israel earlier this week that Israel was hopeful
that improved ties with Arab states would ultimately yield Arab
pressure on the Palestinians for substantive progress. "The
conventional wisdom for the last few decades has been that a
solution to the Palestinian issues will result in improved ties
between Israel and the Arab world," Gold told The Times
of Israel on Wednesday. "But there is a serious basis for
thinking that, actually, the sequence is exactly the opposite
that by improving ties with the Arab states, we set the stage
for a future breakthrough with the Palestinians."

Gold has recently met with several officials from Arab countries,
including those with which Israel has no formal ties. In the
days leading up to Fridayâs summit, Netanyahu
and other Israeli officials held behind-the-scenes contacts with
various international figures, to try and ensure that the summit
did not end with an effort to impose terms discomfiting for Israel,
the Channel 2 report said. The final statement was indeed relatively
vague. Furthermore, Britain, Russia and Germany did not send
their foreign ministers to the meeting, and were represented
instead by lower-level officials. Kerry did attend, but did not
make any dramatic comments to reporters at the event, merely
speaking before the ministers met of the "need to know where
it's going." Continued: http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-and-the-region/

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